4 hours ago, MarcusAseth said:

I wasted 3k hours into Guild Wars 1 because all that effort was washed away at GW2 launch

3000 ??? You should be happy they terminated the game. Otherwise - would you still waste your life to play it?

4 hours ago, MarcusAseth said:

Probably the problem here is that is all based on money, therefore one need to create new games to keep the player interest high and keep earning money, so I dream of a society where everyone receive a basic income just because he is on this planet thus removing the need for making money to survive, if that where to happen then games would be made just out of passion and we would have more of those lifetime-commitment projects. I also think it will eventually happen in the future, and we have the bad luck to be born too soon to see it x_x

So you dream of a workless society - ok, but you do it mainly because... there would be better games if so ???

You want a future where machines do work and humans live in a pointless virtual dream world? Sorry for axaggerating, but all you say points in that direction ;p

There is a major difference between virtual / real life: procreation. It does not matter what we think about good or bad life, what makes sense to us or not. If the whole species would go virtual and looses interest in real life, it would vanish. Maybe even this does not matter, not sure, but i am sure playing a video game for 30 hours is always a waste of time, memory card or not. Doing work justifies to relax, play a game, watch a movie or whatever, but if you play too much there is too little time for work (survival) and family (procreation). Your life becomes empty and pointless. Even if the virtual world is exactly your dream, you'll be unhappy. You can't trick nature.

Why do you want to make games instead just playing them? To make your dream game? No, it's because this way you do more work and less timewasting and you feel better. I bet that's the true reason

I really want to go back to the golden era of Minecraft modding, like back in 1.7.10. I had sooo much fun. So many great mods, so many great packs, that are currently unplayable or discontinued etc since the base game progresses faster than what the mod devs can keep up with.  There are lots of clones etc, but none of them come close to modded MC in terms of content.

I really like building stuff with my friends. MC is one example, games like Anno or The Settlers are others. I'd really love some form of building game which is endless and continuous, that allows for clever and/or optimized designs, yet has some form of quests or challenges that scales with progression. Stardew Valley is a game that really impressed me in how it combined the building/progressing, the social RPG aspects, the questing, the "just one more turn" thing and the collectibles aspects all into one really well made game. Really amazing game and I look forward to the multiplayer version, but it really does have an ending. MC is rather unlimited, especially with mods, but lacks in challenges and quests, especially that scales with player progression. Settlers and Anno have very specific challenges, but have very limited content. After a while you are just "done".

I'm currently working on some form of Anno/Settlers game where we might allow maps to be expanded WZ2100 style and new more powerful enemies or whatever be generated once the player defeats the current one. Either that or a Stargate inspired world where you would have a home and build some form of base then explore the universe through portals and find friends and foes with various levels of power where you go.